Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Sun Weidong has said Beijing is looking forward to enhance its cooperation with Tehran through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).

If Iran joins the $46 billion CPEC project it would be win-win cooperation for both Beijing and Tehran, IRNA news agency on Monday quoted Sun as saying.

According to Sun, Beijing shares very good relations with Tehran and "we think that Iran can also be a very important country along the Belt and Road initiative, so we really look forward to enhance our cooperation with Iran".

In a meeting between Iran President Hassan Rouhani and Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in September, Iran had shown willingness to become a part of the project.